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* trace: profile all if conditionalsSteven Rostedt2008-11-231-2/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: feature to profile if statements This patch adds a branch profiler for all if () statements. The results will be found in: /debugfs/tracing/profile_branch For example: miss hit % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 0 1 100 x86_64_start_reservations head64.c 127 0 1 100 copy_bootdata head64.c 69 1 0 0 x86_64_start_kernel head64.c 111 32 0 0 set_intr_gate desc.h 319 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 51 1 0 0 reserve_ebda_region head.c 47 0 1 100 reserve_ebda_region head.c 42 0 0 X maxcpus main.c 165 Miss means the branch was not taken. Hit means the branch was taken. The percent is the percentage the branch was taken. This adds a significant amount of overhead and should only be used by those analyzing their system. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* trace: branch profiling should not print percent without dataSteven Rostedt2008-11-231-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: cleanup on output of branch profiler When a branch has not been taken, it does not make sense to show a percentage incorrect or hit. This patch changes the behaviour to print out a 'X' when the branch has not been executed yet. For example: correct incorrect % Function File Line ------- --------- - -------- ---- ---- 2096 0 0 do_arch_prctl process_64.c 832 0 0 X do_arch_prctl process_64.c 804 2604 0 0 IS_ERR err.h 34 130228 5765 4 __switch_to process_64.c 673 0 0 X enable_TSC process_64.c 448 0 0 X disable_TSC process_64.c 431 Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* trace: consolidate unlikely and likely profilerSteven Rostedt2008-11-231-26/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: clean up to make one profiler of like and unlikely tracer The likely and unlikely profiler prints out the file and line numbers of the annotated branches that it is profiling. It shows the number of times it was correct or incorrect in its guess. Having two different files or sections for that matter to tell us if it was a likely or unlikely is pretty pointless. We really only care if it was correct or not. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
*-. Merge branches 'tracing/branch-tracer', 'tracing/ftrace', ↵Ingo Molnar2008-11-171-1/+2
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | 'tracing/function-return-tracer', 'tracing/tracepoints' and 'tracing/urgent' into tracing/core
| * | tracing/ftrace: change the type of the init() callbackFrederic Weisbecker2008-11-161-1/+2
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: extend the ->init() method with the ability to fail This bring a way to know if the initialization of a tracer successed. A tracer must return 0 on success and a traditional error (ie: -ENOMEM) if it fails. If a tracer fails to init, it is free to print a detailed warn. The tracing api will not and switch to a new tracer will just return the error from the init callback. Note: this will be used for the return tracer. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* / tracing/branch-tracer: fix a trace recursion on branch tracerFrederic Weisbecker2008-11-161-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Impact: fix crash when enabling the branch-tracer When the branch tracer inserts an event through probe_likely_condition(), it calls local_irq_save() and then results in a trace recursion. local_irq_save() -> trace_hardirqs_off() -> trace_hardirqs_off_caller() -> unlikely() The trace_branch.c file is protected by DISABLE_BRANCH_PROFILING but that doesn't prevent from external call to functions that use unlikely(). My box crashed each time I tried to set this tracer (sudden and hard reboot). Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* ftrace: rename trace_unlikely.c fileSteven Rostedt2008-11-121-0/+320
Impact: File name change of trace_unlikely.c The "unlikely" name for the tracer is quite ugly. We renamed all the parts of it to "branch" and now it is time to rename the file too. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>